Thermapen is fantastic - it really reads in a second or two. For years I was resigned to the fact that "fast read" thermometers take nearly 10 seconds and fall

Thermapen is fantastic - it really reads in a second or two. For years I was resigned to the fact that "fast read" thermometers take nearly 10 seconds and fall apart, after buying a bunch from Amazon. I've had the same experience with other kinds of things. For many categories, Amazon simply does not sell high quality products - at all. You have to find the brands using your own research (good luck getting past the top-10-of-2021 hell hole), then buy directly from them. My impression is that it used to be that it was only this hard to discover sources for obscenely high end products. Now it's the case for anything that isn't ultra-cheap garbage.